Tomas Alfredson

Tomas Alfredson

Birth : 1965-04-01, Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden

History

Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director, best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge award for Best Direction twice; in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown, and in 2009 for Let the Right One In. His future film work includes John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy followed by Philip Reeve's Larklight for the Warner Bros.

Profile

Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson

Movies

Berättelsen om Killinggänget
Self
The comedy group Killinggänget made a big splash in the 90s with, among other things, "Nilecity" and "I manegen med Glenn Killing". In "Berättelsen om Killinggänget" they themselves tell about their life in the 30-year-old comedy group
Alfons och hemlige Mållgan
Producer
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Alfons och hemlige Mållgan
Editor
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Alfons och hemlige Mållgan
Director
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Bara knyt, Alfons!
Producer
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Bara knyt, Alfons!
Editor
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Bara knyt, Alfons!
Director
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Aja baja, Alfons Åberg
Editor
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
Aja baja, Alfons Åberg
Director
The books about Alfie Atkins have come to life in a brand new film package.
The Jonsson Gang
Writer
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to be something a lot bigger than Sickan thought it was. Now he needs the help of his past accomplices to carry out the most difficult heist in the history of the gang.
The Jonsson Gang
Director
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to be something a lot bigger than Sickan thought it was. Now he needs the help of his past accomplices to carry out the most difficult heist in the history of the gang.
Jag är Klimpen, motherfucker!
'Klimpen' was the beloved antagonist of the classic 90s adolescent comedy series "Bert". Two decades later, Martin - who played Klimpen - is newly divorced, depressed, alcoholic and homeless. This documentary follows Martin over three years as he finds new love, and tries to get his life back on track.
Bergman Revisited
Director
Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
Himself
Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.
Scenes in the Night
Doctor
Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
Bergman's Reliquarium
Screenplay
A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cropping, replicating and caricaturing.
Bergman's Reliquarium
Director
A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cropping, replicating and caricaturing.
The Snowman
Director
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Trespassing Bergman
Self
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergmans video, 2012.)
Bergmans video
Self
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (Released in 2013, edited and abridged, as Trespassing Bergman.)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Director
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Sissela Kyle - Dina dagar är räknade
Director
Här är äntligen hennes show på DVD - showen gick för utsålda hus och sågs av över 150 000 personer. I över ett år har Sissela Kyle med stor framgång turnerat landet runt med sin föreställning "Dina dagar är räknade". Hon har själv lagt beslag på alla figurer och för första gången är Sveriges roligaste kvinna frisläppt på egen hand. Ogenerat, Obeskrivligt - helt enkelt vansinnigt roligt!
Let the Right One In
Editor
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
Let the Right One In
Director
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
Four Shades of Brown
Screenplay
Four stories, all related to fatherhood, are presented: A father tries to stimulate his son by bringing him to his workplace with disastrous consequences. Richard Brunn and his wife, who run a design hotel, suffer a strained relationship as his parents visit. An extended family is gathered to find out who will inherit the wealth of a famous jockey. A cooking class develops into a therapy session.
Four Shades of Brown
Writer
Four stories, all related to fatherhood, are presented: A father tries to stimulate his son by bringing him to his workplace with disastrous consequences. Richard Brunn and his wife, who run a design hotel, suffer a strained relationship as his parents visit. An extended family is gathered to find out who will inherit the wealth of a famous jockey. A cooking class develops into a therapy session.
Four Shades of Brown
Director
Four stories, all related to fatherhood, are presented: A father tries to stimulate his son by bringing him to his workplace with disastrous consequences. Richard Brunn and his wife, who run a design hotel, suffer a strained relationship as his parents visit. An extended family is gathered to find out who will inherit the wealth of a famous jockey. A cooking class develops into a therapy session.
Office Hours
Director
Lotta is 27 years old and an office slave. She has absolutely no ambitions to advance. Most of the time she sits and waits until office hours are over. Then she gets promoted...
Spermaharen
Director
Screwed in Tallinn
Editor
Percy Nilegaard collects Swedish single men and embarks on a bus trip to Tallinn with a so-called "highly-experienced driver".
Screwed in Tallinn
Director
Percy Nilegaard collects Swedish single men and embarks on a bus trip to Tallinn with a so-called "highly-experienced driver".
On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
Director
The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.
Ben & Gunnar - En liten film om manlig vänskap
Director
Ben and Gunnar meet during a carpool from Stockholm to Göteborg in the summer of 1995 where they are attending a concert with Bruce Springsteen at Ullevi.
Gunnar Rehlin - En liten film om att göra någon illa
Director
A satiric campaign against the film critic Gunnar Rehlin.
Bert: The Last Virgin
Aage Kastrup
The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
Bert: The Last Virgin
Director
The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
Bert - Känsliga kyssar
Director
Bert - Berts Piniga Pubertet
Director
Bert - Berts Röjiga Rockliv
Director
Tingel Tangel på Tyrol
Teleplay
A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm.
P & B
Jonas
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.
The Simple-Minded Murderer
Axel
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
SOPOR
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
The Apple War
Count
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Director
The story will follow a medium who convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve renown for her abilities. When her true intentions come to light, however, her husband realizes the plan threatens to consume them both.